Tales from the archive

The stories

Colin Blakemore presents the BMJ's new video series, told in eight parts. These stories delve into the BMJ's 169 year old archive to unearth some of the leading thinkers of their time, and show the...

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The issues

Colin Blakemore presents the BMJ's new video series, told in eight parts. These stories delve into the BMJ's 169 year old archive to unearth some of the leading thinkers of their time, and show the...

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A new world is born

The third video in our series to promote the BMJ's online archive now being fully searchable back to 1840 looks at Sir James Young Simpson, the man who discovered the anaesthetic properties of...

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Surgery transformed

The fourth video in our series to promote the BMJ±s online archive now being fully searchable back to 1840 follows on from...

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Death by mosquito

For the fifth video in our series we travel to the tropics to look at the beginning of our understanding of malaria. In 1900 Patrick Manson wrote a seminal paper in...

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The TB trials

John Crofton pioneered the randomised controlled trial in a 1948 BMJ paper which looked at the antibiotic streptomycin to treat TB. Shortly before his death in 2009, Dr Crofton spoke to Professor...

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The man who stopped smoking

Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and...

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The woman who knew too much

Alice Stewart died one of Britain's foremost epidemiologists. However her recognition came late in her career, having spent her life fighting the establishment's...

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